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NET Bible
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
New American Standard Bible
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
King James Version
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Holman Bible
I would be asleep.
Then I would be at rest
International Standard Version
"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,
A Conservative Version
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
American Standard Version
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
Amplified
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],
Bible in Basic English
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Darby Translation
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Julia Smith Translation
For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me.
King James 2000
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,
Lexham Expanded Bible
For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}
Modern King James verseion
For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest,
New Heart English Bible
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
Webster
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
World English Bible
For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
Youngs Literal Translation
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,
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Job Wishes He Had Died
12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them? 13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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Job 7:8-10
The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
Job 7:21
And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."
Job 10:22
to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
Job 14:10-12
But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?
Job 17:13
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 19:27
whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.
Job 21:13
They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
Job 21:23
"One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.